Diversified and global

It is fair to say the world has become a more sophisticated place over the past 30 years. In 1979, when Jersey Finance chief executive Geoff Cook was starting out in financial services, most people still thought - in the words of Douglas Adams - that digital watches were a pretty neat idea. As far as finance went, in the UK banks were for deposits and lending, while stockbrokers managed investments. Even IFAs were a thing of the future, to say nothing of the kind of electronic financial shenanigans that recently lost Societe Generale £3.7bn. Likewise, while offshore centres like Jersey ...